Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will set up temporary facilities if the building is unable to support normal trading . |
| 2 | A positive correlation was found between glycosylated haemoglobin concentration and the prostacyclin concentration necessary to inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation by 50 per cent . |
| 3 | The strategy included plans ( i ) to develop a new , voluntary nationwide examination system of " American Achievement Tests " in the core subjects of English , mathematics , science , history and geography ; ( ii ) to promote parental choice as to which schools children should attend ; ( iii ) to establish a business-financed , non-profit-making organization to develop non-traditional types of school , which would receive limited federal funding ; and ( iv ) to boost vocational training by encouraging business and labour to devise ( voluntary ) skill standards and " skill certificates " . |
| 4 | One suspects that the other purposes of the 1988 Education Act , in particular the need to emphasise parental choice and to bring the brisk benefits of the winds of market forces to the education system , will mean that the summative , evaluative and informative purposes might squeeze out emphasis on the other two . |
| 5 | And we will continue to support Total Quality Management consultancies . |
| 6 | A letter written to Bush in early October by a group of 53 US senators , urging him to suspend economic assistance until the restoration of representative government in Pakistan , led an official Pakistani government spokesman on Oct. 22 to describe the senators as " a group opposed to the national interests of Pakistan " . |
| 7 | It arranged with the manufacturers that he would be allowed to see technical data that had been carefully doctored to include major errors . |
| 8 | Alternatively , it should be possible to disrupt specific DH sites by homologous recombination , as has been recently described for the β-globin LCR ( 69 ) . |
| 9 | Casting grave doubt on the future of any in-house repository at IBM Corp , the company has extended its existing licence for Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench Framework to include non-Unix IBM systems such as OS/2 — the original licence for the software engineering tools environment covered IBM 's AIX-based development offerings only . |
| 10 | For my purposes here it is therefore possible to treat political sociology and modern political science together . |
| 11 | Secondly , investors from outside the Community , from places such as Japan , the United States and many others , look at the European Community and decide that the United Kingdom is by far the best place in which to invest due to the stability , skills and reliability of our work force . |
| 12 | This may reflect a difference in emphasis in that parents seemed to be looking for information about their child 's overall character and behaviour ( eg ‘ good at sharing toys ’ ) whereas staff seemed to report specific good behaviour ( eg ‘ She 's done a lovely painting this morning ’ or ‘ He ate his dinner up nicely today ’ ) . |
| 13 | A voucher scheme has been introduced to encourage coach tour operators to include Historic Scotland properties in their itineraries . |
| 14 | Some of these now strongly argue that evaluation which is initiated and conducted by teachers in response to their own perceived needs and interests has a greater capacity to promote professional development , because the role of teachers is extended but their autonomy is preserved . |
| 15 | It has therefore also done little to promote professional and moral accountability : the improvement of educational practice . |
| 16 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |
| 17 | I often used to go fell walking but can not ever remember seeing the deep ruts caused by walkers that were all around , in some cases up to 12–15in deep . |
| 18 | Worse , the president promised on new year 's eve to implement Islamic sharia law , which will probably aggravate his war against the non-Muslim rebels of Sudan 's south . |
| 19 | It should also be appreciated that activity between market participants is used by the Bank of England , directly and indirectly to implement monetary policy via interest rate changes . |
| 20 | They were not required to wear normal police uniform , or to cut their hair short , both of which were considered demeaning . |
| 21 | Some of them used to wear normal clothes if they were going home afterwards , some would come in uniform but without their keys . |
| 22 | Once again , the budget has been increased to include computer-based sequencing software and synchronising devices a-plenty . |
| 23 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 25 | do n't want to go , and there 's some who wo n't be able to go due to other commitments . |
| 26 | At that time , the IC IB comparator switches low , causing IC ID 'S bistable output to go low , which turns off Q1 . |
| 27 | It was British policy to enforce Roman-Dutch law , as amended by British proclamations . |
| 28 | By concentrating too much on the TNCs ' search for cheap labour , the NIDL fails to connect economic with political and culturalideological transnational practices . |
| 29 | The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital . |
| 30 | He used language , the politician 's only weapon , to build a momentum for change sufficient to carry Labour to power on a modernising platform . |